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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Summer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Passageewakeag?
(a) A French term for homeland.
(b) An Indian term for place of ghosts or spirits.
(c) An Indian term for holy land.
(d) A French term for cemetery.

2. Of whom is the poem Maypole Point about?
(a) Aunt Hespa.
(b) Dolly.
(c) Debby.
(d) Marguerite.

3. What animal do the children find at Falmouth and decide to adopt?
(a) A tiger cub.
(b) A cat.
(c) A dog.
(d) A bird.

4. Off of what island is it said is the best fishing in Penobscot Bay?
(a) Sunday Island.
(b) Monhegan.
(c) Isle au Haut.
(d) Mount Desert.

5. What is the point of view of the novel?
(a) First person.
(b) Third person omniscient.
(c) Third person limited.
(d) Second person.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aunt Hespa boil in milk to help cure health complaints?

2. What does Dolly Sargent use to nurse her baby on the ship?

3. What skill was Marguerite taught by the Sisters in a convent in France?

4. Who plays the fiddle during Marguerite's visit at Aunt Hespa's?

5. What does grit mean as used in Part 1 of this novel?

(see the answer key)

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